Packaging sheet-metal sections.



Patepted May 6, I902.

G. P. HOBBS.

PACKAGING SHEET METAL SECTIONS.

(Application filed Dec. 2, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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GEORGE P. HOBBS, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF. ONE-HALE TO THE11. HALLER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LIMITED, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. t

PACKAGING SHEET-M ETALSECTIONS.

SPECIFICATION f; 1; ing part of Letters Patent No. 699,322, dated May 6,1902.

Application filed December 2,1901. Serial No. 84,332. (No model.)

To all whom it iii/my concern: same time. From this it follows that theBeitknown that I, GEORGE P. HOBBS, a citi whirls of the package aredrawn very taut or zen of the United States, residing at New Orclosetogether and the package rendered very 55 leans, in the parish ofOrleans and State of compact. The roll which I prefer to employ 5Louisiana, have invented new and usofulImis of the collapsible type,this in order to faprovements in Packaging Sheet-Metal Seccilitateremoval of the package subsequent tions, of which thefollowii'igisaspecification. to the tying thereof.

Myinvention relates to the nesting or pack- The improved package orbundle is very 6o aging of all sheet-metalarticles,stovepipcpreexpeditiously produced in the manner de- 10 ferred, having previouslyturned or hooked scribed and is not only very compact but iscdges,whetherin the flat orpreviously formed also advantageous becausethe interlocked into circular or other shapes; and it consistscomplementary edge portions a b of the secin the peculiar andadvantageous package or tions operate to protect each other-t'. 6.,prebundle hereinafter described and claimed. vent each other being bentor pressed out of :5 In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 is shape.Again, it will be observed that when apackage or bundle of sheet-metalstovepipethe package or bundle is untied the sections sections producedin accordance with inyinmay with facility be drawn or pushed endvention;Fig. 2, a detail edge elevation illuswise out of engagement orconnection with trative of the manner in which the meeting each other.

2o edges of the sheet-metal sections are detach- While I have describedthe sheet-metal arably connected or interlocked in a hooked ticles ashaving complementary hook-shaped manner when in the flat; and Fig. 3, aper edge portions, which is the preferred equip-' spective view, on areduced scale, of one of ment, I desire it distinctly understood thatthe sections as it appears when withdrawn my specification and claim aredesigned to 25 from the package or bundle. comprehend detachablyconnecting the arti- Similar letters of reference designate correclesedge to edge in any manner suitable to sponding parts in all of theviews of the draw the purpose'of my invention. They are not, ings.however, intended to comprehend the idea In carrying out my inventionthe sheetof permanently connecting sections of sheet 0 metal articles,preferably stovepipes or stovemetal to form roofing-sheets and rollingthe pipe-sections, (indicated by A,) are produced same up into a bundleand securing the bunand provided at opposite edges with oppodle, for Iam well aware that this is old. sitely-disposed hook-shaped edgeportions Having described my invention, what I a b in any suitablemanner and by any apclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 5 provedmeans. They are then, whether in a cut, is

circular or other shape or in the flat, as shown The herein describedpackage or bundle in Fig. 2, hooked together-2'. 6., thehookcomprisingaplurality of sheet-metal articles shaped portion a of oneis engaged with the having hookshaped portions at opposite o portion 6of the one which precedes it-so as edges; the said articles beingloosely and de- 40 to make one continuous sheet of any desired tachablyhooked one on the other to form a number of detachable pieces, androlled into continuous sheet of detachably-connected ara package. Whenthe package comprises ticles, and being rolledinto apackage or bunthenumber of articles desired, it is secured dle, and means for securingthe detachably- 9 5 against opening and the sections againstcasconnected articles in the form of a package 45 ual disconnection fromeach other byanysuitor bundle.

able means, such, for instance, as the tied In testimony whereof I havehereunto set wire band B. my hand in presence of two subscribing wit Inthe preferred embodiment of the invennesscs. tion the stovepipe is firstformed into a circu- GEORGE P.- HOBBS. 5o lar shape and then hooked on aroll and rolled Witnesses:

up into any size roll desired, the pieces being JOHN F. A. HEBEL, hookedone on another and rolled up at the CHAS. CAIN.

